Definitions for ancestresses

ancestresses an·ces·tress

Spelling: [an-ses-tris or, esp. British, -suh-stris]
IPA: /ˈæn sɛs trɪs or, esp. British, -sə strɪs/

Ancestresses is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 641 anagrams from letters in ancestresses (aceeenrsssst).

Definitions for ancestresses

noun

  1. a woman from whom a person is descended.

Origin of ancestresses

First recorded in 1570-80; ancest(o)r + -ess

Examples for ancestresses

Her ancestress had been baptized by the subject of the story.

This "witch," by the way, was an ancestress of Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd.

The moon herself was claimed as the ancestress of certain families.

If the ancestress, or even Dorcas, or Chessun herself, would approve——'

The Quaker woman Elizabeth Hooton was an ancestress of mine.

The girl read and re-read the description of this ancestress, then gasped.

Ova was my ancestress, and the knowledge of this mine is consequently a family secret for us.

An ancestress of ours made a mesalliance in the reign of your King John.

Today no small host of Americans have for ancestress the daughter of Powhatan.

His ancestress Asenath, the wife of Joseph, had been an Egyptian and he had boasted of the fact.

Word Value for ancestresses
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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